Good morning. You may remember, way back in the mists of time, a considerable amount of anxiety about Jeremy Corbyn purging the Labour party of internal critics. Now that story has been entirely reversed: Aletha Adu, Pippa Crerar and Jessica Elgot reported yesterday on senior party figures saying that Corbyn “will never be permitted to stand as a Labour MP at an election again”.
That news is not exactly a surprise to close observers of the machinations of the party: one ally of Corbyn’s is quoted as saying that the MP for Islington North is the only person who had not “fully realised” that he would never have the party whip restored. But it feels like the denouement of something – and it shines a light on a wider and more consequential story about how Labour is changing.
